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Hijacking SIM Cards through Over-the-Air Updates

23

Jul

2013

We all know that mobile phones have been the focus of cybercriminals for a while now. But Trojanized mobile applications are only one attack scenario. Some problems lie even deeper in your phone. Karsten Nohl, a German researcher who has done a lot of work with GSM networks and mobile phones in the past, has […]

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USSD Exploit Can Lock All Android Phone SIM Cards

02

Oct

2012

While only a certain brand of smartphones was vulnerable to being wiped via an USSD command embedded in webpages, the locking of SIM cards is possible with most any Android phone. The victim just needs to have the phone access a maliciously-formed “tel:” URI, such as by visiting a web page with an embedded iframe. […]

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More Android smartphones vulnerable to vicious attack

29

Sep

2012

Researchers have determined that an attack which can wipe data from Samsung Android devices when visiting a malicious website can also be used to lock the SIM cards or completely wipe all of the data from many other Android phones. In addition to web pages, the attack can be triggered through SMS, or by a […]

Category General Written by Avast! blog 0 Comments

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